Top Powerful Persons in Automotive Industry
Top Powerful Persons in Automotive Industry
Motor Trends has just released the list of most powerful personalities in the automotive industry in the year 2011. This is the seventh annually Motor Trend Power List, announced after an awful year of world\’s largest automakers. 2010 witnessed big reduce in Toyota\’s profit in comparison with the outcome last year and below the profits of Honda and Ford Motor Company. This year, many big automotive brands experience plagues with quality and safety problems. In the situation, General Motors tries very hard to recover after the bankruptcy just 16 months ago. Such ever changes in automotive industry are closely connected with Motor Trend Power List 2011 which demonstrates most powerful automotive figures in the world.
Alan Mulally: Ford Motor Company Chief Executive Officer
Alan Mulally is one of Ford’s Board of Directors, president and chief executive officer of the company. His career has been marked as one of the “Industry Leader of the Year”, “The 30 Most Respected CEOs”, and “Person of the Year” by different magazines.
Ferdinand Piëch: Volkswagen AG chairman of supervisory board
Ferdinand Piëch is known as an automobile engineer and manager from Australia
Carlos Ghosn (Nissan/Renault president/CEO)
Carlos Ghosn deserves the 1st position in 2005 and 2006 Power Lists and ranked the 14th in 2010 list. He moves back to the 3rd place this year. The president of Renault holds a plan of building 500,000 battery electrics in 3 years from now on.
Martin Winterkorn: Volkswagen AG chairman of the board of management
Martin Winterkorn has been chairman of Volkswagen’s board of management since 1 January 2007. Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is setting a goal of takeover Toyota as the world\’s largest automaker.
Chung Mong Koo: Hyundai Motor Company chairman
Chairman Chung Mong Koo took over the position of head of Hyundai Motor Co – South Korea\’s largest carmaker – in 1999. He has just delivered four-year product cycles for Hyundai while others keep five-year cycles.
Mark Reuss: General Motors vice president and president, North America
Mark Reuss aims at annual changes in products and go-to-market approach in order to get better. He owns excellent business acumen.
Lewis Booth: Ford Motor Company CFO
Thanks to excellent outlook, Lewis Booth led the company though darkest period with Ford\’s “home equity loan”. He earns back .5 billion loan billions at a time.
Derrick Kuzak: Ford Motor Company group vice president, product development
Derrick Kuzak is leading the new aggressive product strategy of Hyundai: EcoBoost fours in new Explorer and EcoBoost V-6s in the F-150. Notably, he is named the winner of the 2010 National Academy of Engineering award.
Sergio Marchionne: Fiat Auto/Chrysler Group CEO
Sergio Marchionne is the CEO of both Fiat S.p.A. and Chrysler Group LLC
John Krafcik: Hyundai USA president/CEO
John Krafcik is the most dynamic leader in automotive industry. He keeps the promise for long-term view of environmental priorities as Hyundai’s strategy in 2010.
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